Friday, October 22

As my regular readers know, Fridays are spelling test day around here as well as my day to get caught up on ironing while I'm giving the spelling tests. Typically it's just a matter of dictating words and doesn't take that long to do. I usually glance at the sentences that go with the vocabulary words for the occasion when someone simply can't remember ever hearing the word which is often because they've been pronouncing it totally incorrectly as they've been doing their spelling work through the week.

Back to the sentences that go with the words and the one this morning that I immediately knew wasn't for my student but to make me laugh out loud. It actually wasn't a sentence but a quote:

forgotten - "There is nothing new except what is forgotten." ~ Euclid

HA! What a perfect quote to describe the life of a fifty something mom! Somedays it feels like everything is new because I've forgotten all about this or that or the other thing so when I do hear about it, suddenly it is new.

Can anyone else relate?

Back to working on Friday's schoolwork corrections and celebrating the "newness" of life with a smile on my face!

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gardening goals

"Cultivate faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love in your children. For if they are growing in these qualities, they won't be ineffective or unproductive, and they will never stumble." - paraphrase of II Peter 1:5-10 from "Hugs for the Heart"